Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editors Phillips and Rahv, only survivors (both 39 years old) of the crew of young Marxists* who founded the Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine...
These were not the views of a socialist-baiting Tory. First as vicar of Portsea, then as bishop of South London's slum-ridden Southwark district, Dr. Garbett learned a great deal about what life is like among the poor; as an enthusiastic sponsor of his Church's famed, leftish Malvern program in wartime, he won the hearts of Anglican liberals...
Light Pound. The Newpacot Corp., exporters, advertised in the Wall Street Journal for anyone "interested in purchasing ?67,500 blocked sterling in London at a big discount." President C. Y. Wang, up against the international dollar shortage, explained that the "big discount" was "10% or more" on the official rate of $4.03. The New York price for sterling notes is $3.20 but an individual can only take ?20 into England...
...terrible-tempered hero of Broadway's longest-run play; after long illness; in Lugano, Switzerland. The "Whitney" of the play inspired by brother Clarence's stories, Expatriate Julian served in Britain's World War I Camel Corps, later became a British subject and a successful London banker...
...Down, Thomas. The promise Stryker holds out in his prologue is a rich one: "Come down, then, Thomas Erskine, from those pedestals and canvases. Let us see and hear you not only as the eyes of genius knew you, but as your witnesses and judges saw you, and your London juries, whose affections you so often stormed. Let us see you panting in the dust and heat of the arena, see you as the great Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while...